(n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.
(n.) The wheather; the climate.
(v. t.) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.
(v. t.) To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket.
Example Sentences:
(1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(2) The detail of all of that will come over the coming months,” Cormann told Sky News.
(3) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(4) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(5) "The sky's the limit for these young people," he says.
(6) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
(7) In desperation, I cancelled my contract with Sky and placed a new order with BT in February.
(8) It is trying to position Sky Arts as the country's premier cultural channel as it attempts to demonstrate to politicians and regulators that it can produce programming that was once the preserve of public service broadcasters like the BBC.
(9) The foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, told Sky News the British security assessment was based on “all the information available”, some of it “sensitive”.
(10) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
(11) But, the challenge now is for Sky to hold its nerve.
(12) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
(13) Dark Sky , for example, is a Kickstarter-funded iOS app that provides weather forecasting depending on your exact location.
(14) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(15) Morrison admitted on Sky News on Sunday night that the conversation did take place, but that no deal was made.
(16) "In the UK our long-term competition will likely be Sky Go offering Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic on demand," he said.
(17) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
(18) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
(19) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
(20) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
Sunset
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sunsetting
Example Sentences:
(1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(2) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
(3) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
(4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
(5) The entry pattern was more uniform than the exit which showed two distinct peaks around sunset and after midnight.
(6) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
(7) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
(8) Reflecting on the possibilities for top-flight football in San Diego, Hejduk says: “Why don’t you build a stadium right where you can watch the sunset in the background and have fish tacos in the stadium?
(9) By sunset, around 2,000 had left voluntarily in 42 government buses for government-run camps, but thousands were still left in Idomeni overnight.
(10) I don’t want to start naming names of living American directors because I’ll leave someone out and they’re friends.” He does, however, observe that with the exception of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited , which he directed, Hollywood has bungled adapting the novels of his friend Cormac McCarthy.
(11) But Cameron agreed to a "sunset clause" time-limiting the bill to 2016, a full-scale review of intercept laws, a new oversight board and restrictions on the number of public bodies that can make use of surveillance data.
(12) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
(13) When fed with a purified diet, however, both tartrazine and Sunset Yellow FCF at 5% level in the diet resulted in a marked retardation in growth, an unthrifty appearance of the fur and death of 50% or more of the rats within an experimental period of 14 days.
(14) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(15) Sit with your feet in the sand around tables cleverly designed out of cable drums, watching the sunset and enjoying a cold Greek beer.
(16) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
(17) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
(18) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
(19) White Sands national monument Sunset at White Sands national monument, New Mexico.
(20) Normally industrial action of this sort, especially in the UK, would have the likes of the Institute of Directors telling us the cost in millions before sunset.